18 February, 2009. Naples, Italy. Around 150 experts, professionals, government leaders and environmental activists from more than 20 countries around the world gather in Naples, Italy for the 5th Zero Waste International Dialog from February 18 to 21, 2009 to tackle waste issues.

GAIA's position paper on waste and climate change calls for Zero Waste strategies to address global warming and rejects the false solutions of incinerators and landfill gas collection.